I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.